This is a ‘huge win’ for women’s sports: Riley Gaines
Former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines discusses North Carolina’s ban on transgender athletes from female sports on ‘The Story.’
A transgender runner and medical student, who previously trained as a male, complained on social media after finishing fourth in a New York half-marathon, and first in the women's category.
The competition, called The Upstate Classic, offers a 5K and Half Marathon at the Altamont Fairgrounds near Albany.
The trans runner, Kae Luci Ravichandran, said after winning the female #1 slot, "Embarrassingly slow, gave up after mile 5 because my tendon was acting up. Very out of shape. I'll take the [win] tho[ugh]."
Ravichandran finished after 1 hour and 24 minutes. The second-place female winner, Amanda Aussems finished in 1 hour and 30 minutes.
Kae Luci Ravichandran, a transgender runner, landed first in the womens section of a half marathon run. (Kae Luci Ravichandran | Screenshot/Instagram)
Former college swimmer Riley Gaines took to Twitter to blast what she believed was Ravichandran's humblebrag.
"Male runner, Kae Ravichandran, won women's category by 6 minutes at the Upstate Classic Half Marathon," she said. "The real winner of women's category was Amanda Aussems with a time of 1:30.39. Congrats to her and the other female runners."
Ravichandran, a medical student in Vermont, responded to Gains in a story on Instagram, claiming she didn't know about the biology of the matter.
Ravichandran said, "This is so dumb, I ran a 71-minute half marathon pre-estrogen, less than two weeks after a marathon. For this totally fresh half, I ran 84 minutes. I've become way slower – like 18%, my body is physiologically a woman's body now. Yet they still don't want me competing. It's clear that they just don't want trans people in sports in general, and they actually don't care about biology."
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"I need to remind myself that these people have nothing better to do with their lives and spend all their energy being bigots. I also need to stop opening up stuff when I'm tagged, but morbid curiosity sometimes takes over me. Agh. Just feel like s--t."
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